The Theory & Science-Policy Interface group from the NSF department at the UFZ is searching for a dedicated Hiwi to help support the team with their current national, European and international projects.

ESTIMATE: A DFG-funded Project is searching for a PhD candidate to enhance understanding of the influence of internal and external stressors on contaminant source zone formation and their implications for final plume extension

The joint PhD project with partners from the National Park, University Bayreuth, Technical University Dresden and Research Institute Senckenberg is committed to investigate the influence of natural factors on concentration, quality and effects of dissolved organic carbon in the National Park “Bayerischer Wald”. The announced position focuses on a detailed mechanistic investigation of DOC mobilization into the stream at contrasting hydrologic and topographic conditions.

MARZIPAN: A DFG-funded research project is searching for a PhD candidate for the development and application of a coupled vegetation-groundwater model

The use and application of simulation models comes with an everlasting endeavour on the search for best-fit values while balancing optimal model complexity, non-uniqueness and over-parameterization. Even in the age of Big-Data, parameterization of subsurface and groundwater domains is limited by too few data, and will always be due to the restricted monitoring capabilities.

​​A DFG-funded research project will address this issue by combining allometric properties of above-ground vegetation, and it demands for water take up, with the inherent information of subsurface flow and transport processes through the coupling of vegetation growth and groundwater flow models. For this, we have chosen a tropical coastal forest system as a unifying example. We are looking for a PhD-candidate with an interdisciplinary education and interest in the subjects of hydro-, geo-, forest- or computer sciences (or combination of these).